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I've heard about things like that. Wouldn't such redefinition make more sense to be isolated in a newly spawned universe? That way the whole system would not c
by crististm 6y ago
I've heard about things like that.
Wouldn't such redefinition make more sense to be isolated in a newly spawned universe? That way the whole system would not collapse yet you could still play with such concepts.
- tonyg 6y agoYep! Absolutely. Just like Unix VMs (and containers, etc.): recursive whole-system composition makes perfect sense. Smalltalk hasn't been taken in that direction yet by anyone, though, as far as I know.
- rbanffy 6y agoThere are two things I'd like to do with Smalltalk. That's one, and the other is giving each object a thread-like construct and make all execution asynchronous apart from dependencies.
- jecel 6y agoI tried this in the late 1990s with my tinySelf version 1 experiment: http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/tiny.html http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/tiny.html It worked great but still had bugs when I got sidetracked by a completely different project so it was never finished.
- tonyg 6y agoVery cool. Re that latter, you might be interested in https://tonyg.github.io/squeak-actors/ https://tonyg.github.io/squeak-actors/, which is similar (but not uniformly asynchronous).